Diamine's "Oxblood" is a very dark maroon/burgundy color. On glossy bright white
paper, it'll be an amazing nearly-dry blood color, especially if your pen is wet
enough to have it bead up nicely at the ends of strokes. On matte paper, where
colors always look darker, it'll be a reddish-black (the color of a ripe dark
cherry's skin.)

Amazing burgundy colour. It's been lauded as an ink that really looks like
blood, and I have to agree. Think Diamine Syrah and Red Dragon mixed with a
little bit of Waterman Havana brown. Note that when it's smeared, there's a bit
more purple in the red than what you'd expect from actual blood, but the effect
when concentrated is stunning.

It feathers a little bit on really, really cheap recycled papers, but otherwise
it's very well behaved. It's dark enough on any paper that it doesn't look like
correction or notation ink.

Oxblood color is true to its name. It is a dark purple-y, red. On white and
ivory paper the color is saturated. This isn't exactly the color I was looking
for, but I got exactly what I bought. I'm still looking for a deep, dark red
without purple or brown undertones.

Such a unique color. I am very satisfied with this ink, the first Diamine bottle
I have purchased. Loaded my White Tiger - Pilot Metropolitan with it for an
intense matchup. Have used it for taking notes, correspondence, and
drawing/sketching. You can get a noticeable difference in saturation when
writing on nice paper like Rhodia.It's a much richer and eye catching color than sepia (closest thing I have to
compare it to). I would call it brown/burgundy, but my girlfriend insists that
it's too red to write someone's name in.